(Un)Conventional Wisdom on the 2014 midterms

The daylight hours of Election Day bring story after story tweet after tweet about voter turnout This is insanely boring and the stories have little predictive value about the election results Long lines in certain places prompt speculation about unexpectedly high turnout and only later do we

Fifteen years after the premiere of “The West Wing,” there are more television shows about politics than ever before, with “Scandal” among the biggest hits on broadcast television and a half-dozen others in production on various platforms. But the trend is not likely to boost

We're less than two weeks from election day, so it's time to start writing the post-mortems.

Will hysteria over the Ebola virus drive midterm voters to the right?

Congress is more adept at fear-mongering (see: the Ebola virus) than at substantive debate.

Democrats and Republicans seek to tie global crises to their midterm opponents.

Fifty years ago this fall, the Democrats won their highest percentage ever in a presidential election, and Catholics formed the party’s bedrock constituency. Still reeling from the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Catholics voted for his successor, Lyndon Johnson, by a margin of three to one

Democratic senate candidate in K.Y. a champion of ballot-box privacy

Wendy Davis's campaign ad reminding voters of her opponent's disability backfires.